A credentialed appraiser
signs every report.
Twenty-one years across real estate, personal property, machinery, and business valuation. Personal property and business engagements are handled remotely — anywhere in the world. Real property is Arizona-certified and inspected in person.
What do you need appraised?
Most appraisers do one of these. We do all four.
That matters when a single estate holds a house, a tractor, a gun collection, and a business interest — and the alternative is hiring four firms and reconciling four reports that disagree.
Personal Property
Firearms, collections, art, jewelry, antiques, and full household contents — appraised remotely, worldwide.
Residential Valuation
Single-family, condo, multi-family, manufactured and mobile homes — Arizona-licensed, statewide.
Business Valuation
Closely held companies and professional practices — engagements accepted worldwide.
Expert Witness
Independent valuation, rebuttal of opposing reports, and testimony across 50+ litigation engagements.
Remote where the law allows it. Local where it doesn't.
Personal property and business valuation are not state-licensed activities, and both are document-driven rather than site-driven. We take those assignments anywhere in the United States and internationally.
Real estate appraisal is state-licensed. Those assignments are Arizona only — and we will say so plainly rather than take work we cannot properly sign.
Work already delivered.
A sample of the assignment types behind 7,000+ valuations — not a wish list.
Municipal & Government
Replacement cost valuations for police departments, fire stations, government facilities, and public assets.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Valuations of manufacturing plants, production equipment, and specialized industrial machinery.
Heavy Equipment & Fleet
Construction equipment, fleet vehicles, material handling systems, and transportation assets.
Personal Property & Specialty
Firearms, collectibles, medical equipment, fine art, jewelry, and unique assets.
Estate & Divorce
Complex real estate, business interests, and personal property valued for equitable distribution.
Insurance & Loss
Replacement cost, diminished value, property loss, and building systems valuation.
The credential is not in the marketing. It's on the report.
Most online appraisal companies are marketing operations. They take your order, mark it up, and route the actual valuation to a subcontractor you never speak to — someone who has not seen your file before and will not see it again.
NextPhase is built the other way round. A credentialed appraiser performs the work and signs the report. If the conclusion is challenged, the person who signed it is the person who defends it.
- AQB Certified USPAP Instructor
- Arizona Certified Appraiser Instructor
- Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser
- Certified Supervisor Trainer
- FHA / HUD Approved Appraiser since 2006
- VA Panel Appraiser
- Former Vice President, Appraisal Management Company (31 states)
- Published author & national instructor
Six audiences, one standard.
Each has its own capability statement — scope, relevant experience, and methodology, written for the way that reader evaluates an appraiser.
Attorneys & Litigation
Independent valuation, rebuttal analysis, and testimony for counsel.
Banks & Lenders
Collateral valuation from someone who has sat on the review side.
Appraisal Management Companies
A panel appraiser who used to run the panel.
Insurers & Adjusters
Replacement cost, diminished value, and loss analysis that holds up.
Business & Commercial
Asset-level analysis where tangible holdings drive the number.
Private Clients
The same rigour used in litigation, applied to your family's matter.
Seven steps, and you know the fee before step one.
We do not bill by the hour. Scope and fee are agreed in writing before any work begins.
Engagement
Scope, objectives, intended use, and a fixed fee agreed in writing before any work begins.
Inspection
On-site evaluation, or structured remote documentation review for desk assignments.
Research
Market, asset, and industry research appropriate to the effective date of value.
Analysis
The recognised approaches applied and reconciled — with the reasoning shown, not asserted.
Reporting
A clear, complete, defensible report in the format the receiving party requires.
Deposition
Preparation and expert testimony where the matter is contested.
Trial
Direct and cross-examination support through resolution.
Published before you call.
Fixed fees, agreed in writing before work begins. We do not bill by the hour, and these are honest starting points rather than teaser rates.
Personal Property
Machinery & Equipment
Residential Valuation
Business Valuation
Volume pricing available on every category. Per-item cost falls sharply above ten items.
Common questions
Do you work outside Arizona?
For personal property and business valuation, yes — anywhere in the United States and internationally. Neither is a state-licensed activity, and both are performed from documentation rather than a site visit. Real estate appraisal is state-licensed, so real property assignments are Arizona only.
What is USPAP, and why does it keep coming up?
The Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice is the ethical and performance standard appraisers are held to. When the IRS, a court, or a lender says they need a real appraisal, USPAP compliance is what they mean. An estimate from a dealer, an auction house, or a website is not that. NextPhase's principal is an AQB Certified USPAP Instructor and has taught the standard to more than 1,000 professionals.
How fast is turnaround?
Most personal property and machinery assignments deliver within a week of receiving documentation or completing inspection. Residential is typically similar. Business valuations run three to six weeks from the point records are in hand. Rush work is available and priced in the written quote.
How does billing work?
A fixed fee, agreed in writing, before any work begins. No hourly billing and no surprises. If the scope changes materially, you get a revised quote before we proceed — not an invoice afterwards.
Can you appraise as of a date in the past?
Yes. Retrospective valuations are routine for estate and date-of-death work, divorce with a stipulated valuation date, insurance losses, and tax matters.
Will you buy anything you appraise?
No, and we never will. An appraiser who is also a buyer has an interest in your number being low. That conflict is exactly what makes a report indefensible.
What is this likely to cost?
An honest indicative range in three clicks. It is a range, not a quote — the written quote is a fixed number and it is free.
1 What needs appraising?
2 What is the appraisal for?
3 How much of it is there?
Quoting is free and carries no obligation. Fees are never contingent on the value concluded — that is prohibited under USPAP.
Four tools that answer the question before you call
Built from the primary sources, with the citation shown next to every rule. Three of them will sometimes tell you that you do not need an appraiser — which is rather the point.
IRS donation requirements
What the IRS requires for your noncash gift
Open the tool →FEMA 50% rule calculator
Are you about to cross the substantial improvement threshold?
Open the tool →Valuation date finder
What date should the appraisal be as of?
Open the tool →Document checklist generator
Everything we will need, before you send anything
Open the tool →Ready for a number you can defend?
Tell us what you have and what it's for. You get a fixed written quote — never an hourly meter, never a sales call.